Newspaper clipping of a boy coal miner. The description includes information about child labor in coal mines, and explains that the lamp on his cap is an oil lamp. There is also an excerpt from a 1920's miner song titled "A White Slave of the Mine"...

Black and white photograph showing Bunsen Coal Mine #4 and #5 near Universal, Indiana. The viewer is standing in the middle of a rail looking towards the two mines and their tipples. These twin coal mines were owned by Bunsen Coal Company up...

Black and white photograph of coal miners posing in a group photograph at Oak Hill Mine No. 5 in Vermillion County, Indiana. One identified coal miner in the photograph is Bill Scott (seated, mid front), who was a motorman.

This photograph shows two coal miners loading large pieces of coal into a wood mine railroad car in an unidentified underground mine. Note the carbide lamps on the miners' hats, the flat shovel resting against the side of the car and the pickaxe...

A coal miner and two women are posed at the entrance to an unidentified mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. Notice that the coal miner is wearing typical garb: coat, trousers and a cloth cap with a carbide lamp.